We used to say:

Does anyone else just give their house a 'lick and a promise' or do they clean it properly?

I give my house a 'cat lick'! If someone was looking miserable they would be told 'if the wind changes, you'll stick like that'. We were also told we shouldn't wash our hair at 'that time of the month' If you had a small piece of good fortune it was 'better than a slap in the face with a wet kipper'

Yes, walk round with greasy hair and everyone knew you were 'on'

My house is only getting licks and promises at the moment, decorating one small room and boxes everywhere, plus the plasterer came this morning. I promise I will clean it properly soon.

And we have enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers! Hurray!

Margaret - My mother-in-law always used to say we have enough blue in the sky to make an elephant a pair of trousers! DH still says it now. Think they got that a bit mixed up somehow.

We used to say enough blue to patch a sailor's pants - it must be smaller in Scotland.

And we had red sky at night shepherd's delight this evening!

My father always used to say "Red sky at night - shepherd's hut's on fire!"

My Mum used to say "Never mind, worse things happen at sea". Trouble is, she still said it when I was engaged to a sailor!

(And something 'worse' did happen at sea - he got washed overboard in a storm in April 1967 in the north Atlantic: he just got rescued in time before the cold killed him)

Oh, lucky!

DH says that as well and he was in the Navy!